Vietnam-The End

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Notes:
  • promised peace with honor in Vietnam.

Vietnamization- nixon`s policy for winding down the war
  • People taken out of war
  • training and weapons TO SOUTH VIETNAM
  • increase bombing raids
  • hurt supply line of south Vietnam
  • bombing expanded to other countries
Nixon wanted the enemy to believe tat he would do anything to win.
  • U.S. ground forces invade Cambodia in spring of 1970
Shooting at school:
  • This leads to more domestic upheaval in violence with student.
  • Nixon losses support from the the public and congress
  • Gulf of Tonkin repealed
The Pentagon Papers
  • Newspaper gets stuff from the government and tells the public.
  • People increase their disliking in Nixon.
  • Tells the government is lieing
  • Nixon take to court.
Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho- peace talks- 1972
  • Say peace is at hand.
  • Stop fight for election Nixon relected then bomb Vietnam during Christmas called Christmas Bombing.
Prison
  • North Vietnam people release our soldiers.
  • the place was bad and not treated well
  • www.psb.org/wghb/amex/honor/gallery/0.html (this is a site to more info)
  • developed a way to talk/ tap code
war over 1973
  • north Vietnam military attacked, Saigon falls Vietnam is reunited under communism.
  • it really ends 1975
America after
  • we did not win
Cambodia
  • genoside happens
  • later it bounces back
Changes in US
  • government got rid of draft
  • War powers Act- curb the power of president
  • altered American foreign policy
  • America is looked down on
  • veterans extended a cold hands
  • veterans suffered from stress
  • people do not like their government
  • the entire generation was effected